Are you looking for a fast moving, creative environment where you can use your expertise to develop and market cutting-edge interactive and digital products?

YP is one of the largest local search, media and advertising companies in North America. The company creates local search and advertising products that encourage consumers to discover and engage with local businesses across online, print and mobile platforms. YP's suite of local offerings includes its flagship products YP.com, YP Local Ad Network, the popular YPmobile app and The YP Real Yellow Pages®, the largest print directory in the world by advertising revenue. YP.com, which attracts over 30 million monthly online unique visitors, is also accessed by millions of users each month via the mobile web.

The YP(SM) Local Ad Network helps advertisers grow their business and distributes ads to a distinguished list of top publishers. YP's wide range of local ad products such as premium listings, performance-based advertising, direct mail and search engine marketing provides advertisers an opportunity to increase their presence among consumers who are looking for a local business. YP's advertising products address the diverse needs of nearly a million local businesses and help drive tens of billions of dollars in local commerce annually.

YP products are backed by one of the industry's largest local advertising sales forces made up of several thousand media consultants and other resellers.

• Work as a chief user advocate on each project team responsible for promoting user needs while integrating recommendations of the project team and translating business and user requirements into a workable, efficient solution.
• Work within the Consumer Products group to plan, develop, and perform user research and usability activities (including heuristic evaluations, usability testing and other testing methods) across YP.COM consumer products,
• Responsible for researching, designing, and documenting user interfaces and features
• Production and maintenance of Information Architecture and User Experience deliverables such as wireframes, personas, site maps, task flows, etc.
• Responsible for innovative information organization structures, interaction designs, page-level content organization, and navigation
• Work within a multidisciplinary group of stakeholders, project managers, engineers, and designers to refine and transform user needs into usable user interfaces.
• Reports to Director, Consumer User Experience

• Master’s Degree in Human Factors, HCI, Cognitive Psychology or related discipline.
• Interest in user research/usability testing methodologies and user-centered design
• Experience with planning and execution of usability testing strategies
• 3-4 years experience in information architecture/user interface design and relevant application (Visio, Illustrator, etc.) and design process expertise
• Expertise in information architecture deliverables including wireframes and site maps
• Knowledge of general user interface design guidelines, usability engineering methods
• Excellent collaborative, verbal, and written communication skills
• Excellent multi tasking skills

• Master’s Degree in Human Factors, HCI or related discipline preferred, although those with comparable work experience considered.